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Formed from the ashes of the trance-rockers Spacemen 3, singer/guitarist Jason Pierce's group Spiritualized did not break away from his prior band's trademark hypnotic minimalism; instead, they perfected it. Drawing on the continued influence of the Velvet Underground, La Monte Young, and Steve Reich, Spiritualized staked out a common ground between minimalism and lush symphonics -- While the infamous Spacemen 3 tag of "taking drugs to make music to take drugs to" remained a cornerstone of their craft, Spiritualized's very name acknowledged the...
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